TNAG-1599-FCO40-2192-Hong-Kong-1987-Review-of-Representative-Government-1987 — Page 122

"(1)

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to make no change in the numbers and relative and Elected proportions of Official, Appointed Members;

(2)

to

conclude

that

direct

to elections

the

{

(3)

Legislative Council are not desirable;

in

some principle,

element

to conclude that, or direct elections is desirable, but that it should not be introduced in 1988;

(4)

If changes are

desired

in

1988,

possible to make one or more of the following changes, e.g. increase slightly

reduce Members,

it

will

be

Official

Appointed

Members,

the number of the number increase

of

the

indirectly-elected

members

or

have

directly-elected members."

The first 3 questions are very clear,

but they are heavily

The fourth

question

weighted against direct elections in 1988.

is the only question which makes allowance for the introduction

of direct elections in 1988.

question I have yet to see.

primary

education would

But

a more

clumsily

worded

Indeed, anybody

who

has

completed

have been able to do a better job than

HK Ltd.

that. But it would be quite unfair to blame AGB McNair

for the__originality of that question because it was not their

brainchild.

I am told

Mr. Adolf

Hsu

that

it

was

taken

by

almost word for word from paragraph 163 at page 41 of the Greens

Paper published in May 1987.

the options contained

That

is not entirely

true

in paragraph 163 are at least set out

fo

(a) to (f)

whereas

th

simply grouped together without

separately numbered sub-paragraphs

options in Question (4) are

sub-paragraphs.

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